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The accuracy of crime statistics: assessing the impact of police data bias on geographic crime analysis

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Criminology, 2021
Police-recorded crimes are used by police forces to document community differences in crime and design spatially targeted strategies. Nevertheless, crimes known to police are affected by selection biases driven by underreporting.
David Buil-Gil   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Notes on a Perilous Journey to the United States: Irregular Migration, Trafficking in Persons, and Organized Crime

open access: yesLatin American Politics and Society, 2022
This article examines the interplay between transnational criminal actors (essentially human smugglers), local crime groups, and drug cartels in the phenomenon of trafficking in persons coming from Central America along Mexico’s eastern migration routes.
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, K. Schaefer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Crime against Businesses: Temporal Stability of Hot Spots in Mexicali, Mexico

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
In developing countries, crime is a serious problem that affects the operation and viability of firms. Offenses such as vandalism, robbery, and theft raise the operating costs of firms and imposes on them indirect costs.
Fabiola Denegri, Judith Ley-García
doaj   +1 more source

Visualising residents’ fear of crime with recorded crime data from four Czech cities

open access: yesJournal of maps, 2022
The paper investigates if and where registered crime and the fear of crime intersect in the four locations. This information is important to reduce crime and increase the sense of security of the population.
P. Linhartova, I. Ivan, J. Pánek
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Crime Mapping in GIS By Using Hotspot

open access: yesSukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, 2018
Police forces use hotspot mapping to provide a single out towards to resource allocation, ensuring police officers are post to areas of high crime where their existence will have the most smash.
Syeda Ambreen Zahra
doaj   +5 more sources

Géocriminologie, quand la cartographie permet aux géographes d’investir la criminologie

open access: yesCybergeo, 2007
The aim of this article is to expose the context in which the mapping and the use of Geographical Information Systems within the field of crime and security can be expanded, and also to show the various uses of maps through different experiences.First ...
Claire Cunty   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The adoption of a crime harm index: A scoping literature review

open access: yesPolice Practice & Research, 2021
An emerging line of research explores how calculating the harm associated with different types of crime serves as a method to measure crime across times, places and people.
T. van Ruitenburg, S. Ruiter
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unraveling Crimes with Geology: As Geological and Geographical Evidence Related to Clandestine Graves May Assist the Judicial System

open access: yesGeosciences, 2022
The geological and geographical evidence related to crime scenes involving clandestine graves is valuable data to consider during judicial investigations because it can provide useful criminological and criminalistic information.
Roberta Somma, Nunzio Costa
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘A sneaky bit of stalking’: Young people, social network sites, and practices of online surveillance [PDF]

open access: yesTemida, 2018
This article maps the important albeit under-researched relationship between young people, social network sites, and surveillance practices they encounter or engage with in their digital lives.
Milivojević Sanja   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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